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December 08, 2009

I'd say it feels like yesterday but December 8th 1980, the day that John Lennon was murdered, feels like a long long time ago though obviously I have very accurate memories of the day. It was a school day and I got up quite excited to find back to back Beatles records being played on Radio City until the run of three songs ended and they gave out the news that John had been gunned down outside his home in New York. It was a horrible day but I still had to go to school and I remember the rockers in the school laughing at the Beatle fans and I never liked them anyway 'cos they liked Rainbow and Judas Priest, wore crap patches on their coats and they stunk of Patchouli oil. Later on in the evening it was Granada Reports with Tony Wilson being, from what I remember, not being quite complimentary about John and the clip that seemed to be getting played and played again on TV was the Let It Be rooftop session. And those are my main memories of a sad day. Radio City playing back to back Beatles hits, the smell of Patchouli and John Lennon in his fur coat on the roof of Apple singing Don't Let Me Down.

It would be good to hear what other people remember.

Needless to say I never photographed John Lennon so we'll have to make do with some fake ones.

July 20, 2009

I've recently been posting some of my archive to Facebook and with loads of people looking at it I thought it might be easier to post them to a Group/Fan page. Sounds a bit stupid having a fan page but let's just say you can become fans of the archive and not me personally! This photo is from Voodoo in Liverpool and is one of the first albums online with stacks more to follow. If you'd like to join in then please do by clicking here!

August 06, 2007

I've just been sorting out a print order for the Vivienne Westood photograph I had hanging up in Metropolitan over the last 2 years when I came across this from the same session. There's only actually 4 images in the whole edit as it was only a 2 minute job. The one in the show was Westwood looking a bit more aloof and off camera so I thought I'd chuck in a smiler because the suns out.